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Orthographic Compounds in the Vocabulary of Elementary School Children. Technical Note.
Cronnell, Bruce – 1978
The orthographic compounds (two or more words written as one word) in M. Rhode and B. Cronnell's lexicon of words used by elementary school children are categorized in this paper, primarily in terms of related semantic/syntactic structures. Following a discussion of orthographic compounds, the paper mentions procedures used by Rhode and Cronnell…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Elementary Education, Language Usage
New Words for the Communication Skills Lexicon. Technical Note.
Rhode, Mary – 1975
The sources used, the procedures followed, and the results obtained in updating the kindergarten through grade six communication skills lexicon are covered in this report. The final list of 322 new terms included in the lexicon are appended. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Dictionaries, Elementary Education
99 Multiple Meaning Words for Primary Students and Ways to Teach Them.
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Searls, Evelyn F.; and Klesius, Janell P. – Reading Psychology, 1984
Describes the development of a 99-word multiple meaning word list and offers activities designed to develop children's knowledge of multiple meaning words. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Child Language, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Frequency-Count of English Words Appearing in Books Read in Elementary Schools.
Sartain, Harry W. – 1981
To discover the truth about the extent of children's reading vocabularies, a project was undertaken at the Falk Laboratory School, University of Pittsburgh, to determine how many words first, second, and third grade children could recognize in print. A team of graduate students tabulated the words appearing in commonly used basal materials and in…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Child Language, Childrens Literature, Computational Linguistics